Hello family!!! I hope you had a great week and that you are enjoying Women's Conference and that you enjoy General Conference this coming weekend. I'm sure it will be a wonderful, uplifting experience!
My week was pretty relaxed, and at the same time it was super crazy! I didn't do as much missionary work as normal because of transfers, but this week, I got a new companion! Her name is Sister Fuglistaler and she is from Switzerland. Her English is incredible, even though it's her second language. She has orange/red hair (she's a red-head) and all the ward girls joke that we are the "Ana and Elsa" companionship. She is a little more shy, but she is very, very nice and has a strong testimony of the gospel and desire to do missionary work! She really wants to be exactly obedient, which I'm so grateful for. She wants to be a teacher as well! I love her already, and know that we are going to be a good companionship! I'm really excited! It's weird to be the "Senior Companion". I sort of don't like it! I love her though :). I still live with Sister Krivanec and Sister Reach, which is also kind of weird, because Sister Krivanec trained me, but they are both so helpful! It's like they understand how scary and hard it can be to train, so I'm really grateful they are here helping me!
So, Monday, when I found out I was training, I almost died. I was pretty scared, because I had no idea what to expect! Plus, I love Sister Simon and wanted to stay with her really bad. But, change is important and I was too comfortable. Anyways, I had a couple lessons with R this week and she is doing incredible as usual! She is progressing and teaching us the lessons now, and she is killing it. She just knows the gospel so well and is basically already a member. She is going to do service with us this coming week, and I'm really excited for it! We are really good friends now too, and she always buys me chocolate and tells us good morning!! She is just doing so well.
We are still working with Y P as well, and she is so cute! She is coming to church, and seems to really like it. She's still scared about baptism, but hopefully in a couple weeks we will have her on date too.
We have a few other investigators floating around, but we met some good potentials this week! Probably the coolest one was a lady named M. She miraculously called us and asked us if she could come to church! We said yes, and after we had a lesson with her, she said that baptism is something she would like to do. She said she loved church and felt so happy there! I'm so happy for her. So many people we have been meeting with aren't in our area, and we pass them, so I'm hoping this week we have the miracle of being able to get investigators in our area! We need 4 baptisms by the end of the year as a companionship, so we need a miracle! Luckily, #Godourstrengthwillbe and if we have faith, we WILL see miracles. I know it.
Anyway, Wednesday night, I was trained on how to train. It was really exciting! President Mains gave some good tips and advice, and I know it's going to be a great couple transfers. It is harder though because you are always 'on'. So, everything you do, literally, is being watched by your trainee! We've tried some local food together and she generally likes it. I'm excited to give her a really awesome experience here in Singapore! I already love her. Also on Wednesday, I made her a planner, and got her some cute things she might need. I also wrote her a note :).
Finally, as I came back from Newton (later than 9:30 because of the meeting....) the rain was coming down SOO hard. I haven't seen it pour more than at just about any other time than I did there! So, as I walked out of the MRT without an umbrella, I knew I was going to get soaked. I made the most of it and ran around in the rain singing the baptism song. It was so fun! My makeup was everywhere, but the rain is always warm here, and it was fun! I smiled the whole way home.
Two other thoughts, miracles are going to happen in our ward because we are getting new Elders! 12 elders got blackstamped on their way back to KK, so they can't serve in Malaysia anymore. So, emergency transfers happened and there are going to be 6 missionaries in our ward because it (the ward) is so awesome!
Also, I got a beautiful pair of 'Asian Cinderella slippers" from a lady in our ward who is 80 and only speaks Haakan. We always joke around that I have big feet, and so on Sunday she pulled me over and just handed me these beautiful shoes. I love them! Apparently she'd been meaning to get them to me for weeks because some of my shoes are rubber shoes which she doesn't think are very comfy. Anyways, I love the ward, I love missionary work, I love the gospel, and I know that this church is true! Jesus Christ lives and loves us so much, it's so evident to me as a missionary, and I love it.
Quick thought, I realized this week as I became in essence a leader, that I was nervous. I don't consider myself to be a leader at all! In fact, I feel I am far from the person who should be called as one. I like to follow. I had this thought though. I'm always following! I always get to follow Jesus Christ and do what He wants me to do. As a 'leader' I just get to follow Christ more closely, and bring others unto Him and I try and seek His direction as to how I should help those around me more. I hope this makes sense, it was a really comforting thought for me!
Anyways, have a great week!
Love you all!!
Love,
Sister Crabb
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